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<P class="title"><A NAME="HELPContextItems"></A>Context menu items<hr></P>

<p>"Choose items to display in Explorer context menus" options group
allows to select items to add to Explorer context menus. These items 
are displayed when clicking on a file or archive icon in Explorer
or Desktop with the right mouse button.</p>

<p>Beginning from Windows 11, an application can add only a single top level
command or submenu to Explorer context menu. If "Cascaded context menus" in 
<a href="HELPIntegrationSettings.htm">"Integration settings" dialog</a> is on,
all WinRAR commands are available in submenu and you can manage them here.
If "Cascaded context menus" is off, you can select only one extraction command
for archives and one archiving command for usual files. If "Extract each
archive to separate folder" option is enabled, the corresponding command
will be displayed when right clicking several selected archives.</p>

<p>""New" submenu items" options allow to remove "WinRAR archive"
and "WinRAR ZIP archive" entries in "New" submenu of Windows context menu.
These options may trigger a user account control prompt after closing
"Settings" dialog, and thus their new state is applied only after you
press "OK" both in "Context menu items" and its parent "Settings" dialog.</p>

<p>"Drag and drop context menu" options can be used to remove WinRAR
archiving and extraction commands from context menu displayed after
dragging and dropping files with right mouse button. By default,
these options are enabled, so WinRAR proposes to compress files
and unpack archives using a target folder as destination
after right mouse button drag and drop.</p>

<p>"Where to check for SFX archives" options control processing
of SFX archives in context menus. Checking contents of executable file
and detecting if it is a <a href="HELPArcSFX.htm">self-extracting (SFX)</a>
archive introduces some delay when right clicking every ".exe" file,
because WinRAR needs to read and analyze file data to find out if it is SFX.
While such delay is negligible for fast local hard drives, it can be
noticeable in case of slow network disks. This group of options allows
to enable or disable SFX processing for local hard disks, network disks
and other disks like CD-ROM and USB separately. If you turn these options off,
you will not see all SFX related context menu items when right clicking
SFX archive. So disable these options only if you really experience
delays when right clicking ".exe" files.</p>

<p>Normally the context menu contains only extraction commands if single
archive has been right clicked. You can override this by specifying one
or more space separated masks in "Always display archiving items for",
so archiving commands are always displayed for these file types even
if file was recognized as archive. If you wish both archiving
and extraction commands present for all archives, place "*" here.</p>

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